"Together Now" Excerpt 9

Three weeks had past. Warren had optioned his screenplay and although it should have been a time of joy for both Anne and him, they hadn’t so much as even looked at each other. The more they ignored each other, the more they got angry with each other. To Warren this silent war between them was about his inability to talk with her candidly and honestly. To Anne it was a way to hurt Warren for not caring. The truth was somewhere in between.

One morning Anne decided to break the silence between them and said “Good morning.” Warren replied with “Hey.” That concluded the conversation and Warren walked out of the door to go meet Borden.

As soon as the door shut Anne started crying. She couldn’t figure out what she had done wrong. She knew that she had blew the Lindsay Lohan incident out of proportion, but Warren shouldn’t still be mad over that. She replayed everything that had happened in her head over and over and still couldn’t come up with a reason why Warren would be this way.

Anne made up her mind that she was determined to get Warren to open up. She just didn’t know how to go about it. She decided to call Borden’s girlfriend. She seemed like she might know what to do about Warren!

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Warren walked down to Borden’s office. The past month and a half had been very beneficial in learning how to get around L.A. As he walked he thought about how he should bring up his reasons and questions to her without reducing her to tears.

‘If I could just get her to talk to me on an emotional level for five minutes I know I would be able to control my anger. The trouble is she never opens up that easily.’ Warren thought to himself as he walked down the crowded street.

Warren knew that he started this fight. He felt bad about doing it, but he just wanted some sort of reaction that would tell him what she was thinking about. Warren could always tell what kind of mood she was in, but it didn’t help shed any light on what kind of relationship they actually had. That was the thing that hurt the most.

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It took Anne 25 minutes to regain her composure enough to call Dommi and another hour getting ready to meet her at the Starbucks for coffee.

Anne was a little nervous around Dommi because they had only met once before, but she felt she could trust her as soon as they met.

Anne motioned to Dommi that she would be right back, Dommi nodded in reply. Anne walked up to the counter and ordered a large coffee with three creams, then made her way to Dommi and sat directly in front of her.

“Hey Anne!” Dommi said warmly.

“Hey.” Anne replied.

“I’m glad you called! I’ve been worried about you and Warren, is everything all right between you two?” Dommi asked.

“No. He just ignores me and makes me feel like shit.” Anne answered.

“Oh no. That’s not good. What’s the problem?”

Anne began tearing up. “I don’t know, ever since that Lindsay Lohan thing he’s just been so cold towards me. I don’t want to fight with him and I don’t know if he even cares about how he makes me feel.”

“Well have you tried talking to him? I mean I know he talks with Borden a lot. You do come up quite a bit and from what I hear, Warren does care.” Dommi tried to reassure Anne.

Anne’s tears had stopped. “That’s why I asked you for coffee actually. How do I get him to talk to me?” Anne asked.

“I’m not sure. I don’t know Warren well enough to give you an honest answer. I know that whenever Borden and I have communication problems I just give him some space and he usually comes and talks to me about what he feels is going on in the situation.” Dommi replied.
“But that hasn’t seemed to work with him. He just keeps getting more distant as the days go by!” Anne protested.

“Okay, well think back in the past few weeks, right after the Lindsay Lohan thing what happened?”

“Well I spent the night at your place and you and Borden helped me calm down, then when I got home the next day we had sex. Then he just started ignoring me. I don’t know why.”
“That is weird. Hmm... Why don’t we go back to my place and look up a possible solution on the internet?” Dommi suggested.

“That would be excellent.” Anne replied.

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